An overdue blog post about the finances and other news from the .world
I’m actually surprised how low the server costs are. Granted, the userbase is not that large, but it makes me optimistic that Lemmy.world survives long-time.
Lemmy long time
Would have expected the asset hosting to be higher, given the number of images (both the original + the resized thumbnails etc)
Legendary. Didn’t realize the Lemmy world team was also running Mastodon and Firefish instances. Much love for your determined support!
Don’t forget our discord server!
If anybody would like a facebook group, feel free to let us know. We’ve also considered a friendly Minecraft server. Maybe a TikTok account.
Official subreddit? Loljk
I would like to join your webring.
Whats the LiveJournal address and are we hosting any ICQ chats later this week? I’ll sit in a channel on Kali.net so everyone not already on the irc channel can get the phone numbers for the dialup BBS (dual nodes and 9600bps now available!). I’ll also be logged on to INN (Sierra Online) playing Red Baron if anyone wants to join in.
Lemmy world only fans when? Post hot foss pics
I support this idea
The amount of videos of feet scripting terraform is gonna be caaraaazzyyyy
I think you guys should join Bebo.
What’s the link?
Non profit foundation is awesome to see. It will probably the general structure of all significant long lasting institutions on the Fedi.
I might be out of the loop so I’m genuinely curious - what’s wrong with Cloudflare?
The post mentions several times that it isn’t popular and that an alternative will be found.
It’s the fear of centralization, I believe (correct me if I’m wrong!).
Seeing that the whole point of federation is to decentralize the web, putting everything under the Cloudflare umbrella goes against this philosophy.
The federation philosophy is not going to hold up when users centralize themselves on an instance, requiring that instance to seek out things like Cloudflare just to bare the weight.
Maybe it’s about Cloudflare becoming a single point of failure for large parts of the internet?
Iirc it can break federation
I’m loving the transparency around here. 👍
Y’all are wonderful. Thanks for your dedicated effort.
I also appreciated your shout-out to other instances that are active cooperating with .world to make Lemmy a better place. Teamwork makes the dream work.
The idea of a non-profit holding sounds great, but what about collateral damage if shit really hit the fan? Would it not be smarter to have a separate entity for each platform? They could all have essentially the same statutes, boards, directors etc. etc., so in case if one really got under heavy fire, the others wouldn’t be affected? I know it means more admin work and probably also requires some governing policies with regards to the funding distribution, but might be cleaner in the end.
This is absolutely the correct thing to do. Do not place all your eggs in one legal basket.
Cheers for the numbers, always good to see transparency for income and expenses
i’m thrilled to see that the donations are letting this be somewhat self sustaining. obviously a lot of unpaid volunteering going into this so not quite a self sustaining non profit, but it’s got all the promising signs
Thank you for all the work you guys do! Glad to see server expenses are coming in under budget of the donations!
Great work! Although I’m far too busy with other stuff I’d love to be able to contribute some Terraform when and where I can. Maybe you could put some stuff in a public repo so we might contribute?
The stuff in our repo is quite sensitive, so probably won’t ever be public. If your interested in helping. Feel free to fill out a application. It’s in the side bar on the home page. 😎
Alright I will. Just didn’t want to commit to it and then ending up having zero time.
In my experience usually your sensitive stuff should be hidden in secrets so public repos usually shouldn’t be too much of a hassle.
We do that as well for CICD.
Love it! I’m happy to keep supporting this endeavor and community.
So from one sysadmin to another great job! Keep it up and I can’t wait to see where this goes! 🍻
Keep up the good work!
Out of curiosity, why is Cloudflare so heavily despised? It sounds like the service works well?
You’re making great progress.
